Using Comics to Promote Green and Inclusive Architecture

Alex Fitch

Using Comics to Promote Green and Inclusive Architecture

School of Arch, Tech and Eng

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Abstract

Outside of comics available to the general public, a small number of architects are using the medium to explain designs to clients and stakeholders. These include proposals concerned with recycling, proposals for green spaces, and to encourage community involvement in architects’ design work. This chapter considers this recent phenomenon, via an examination of projects by three architects / architecture practices.

These include: Erect Architects’ BINtoGATHER project, proposed for a university campus in east London; C.J. Lim and Ed Liu’s book smartcities, resilient landscapes + eco-warriors; and Sabba Khan’s involvement with the “Shape Newham” project, which brings her parallel careers as an architect and graphic novelist into the revitalisation of public space, in part of a deprived London Borough.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Place-Based Sustainability
Subtitle of host publication	Research and Design Extending Pathways for Ecological Stewardship
Editors	Jason Montgomery
Publisher	Cambridge Scholars
Chapter	10
Pages	249-282
Number of pages	33
ISBN (Print)	152759081X, 9781527590816
Publication status	Published - 23 Dec 2022

Bibliographical note

Originally presented as a paper at AMPS (Architecture Media Politics Society) Conference 2021

Keywords

Comics
sustainability
Communities
Graphic Novels
Architecture
Architecture and the Arts

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